About this title: On 9th May 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had been fired from his job. Eighteen other educators in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of Brooklyn received similar letters that day. The dismissed educators were white. The local school board that fired them was predominantly African-American. The crisis that the firings provoked became the most racially divisive moment in the city in more than a century, sparking three teachers' strikes and increasingly angry confrontations between black and ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1-1-03
ISBN-13:9780300081220ISBN:0300081227
Description: GOOD. Crisp, clean, unmarked, unread hardcover with light shelfwear including a small tear to the dustjacket. The back board has a deep crease and a small cut/bump to the one edge. 1.2 lbs. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 1-1-03
ISBN-13:9780300081220ISBN:0300081227
Description: FINE. Crisp, clean and unread hardcover with light shelfwear to the dust jacket, remainder mark to one edge-VERY NICE! ! ! 1.2 lbs. read more
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